LAST CALL: Interfaith Picnic is this Sunday,
July 23
For those of you who already RSVP'd, thanks! For those of you who missed the deadline, but
would still like to attend, no worries. Please come anyway. We'll make room. As you hopefully know now, St. John's recently
joined the SouthWest InterFaith Team (SWIFT), which promotes
harmony and joint community service among the three Abrahamic faiths:
Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Our
first opportunity to participate in a SWIFT event is this Sunday, July
23, from 1-5 pm, at Peace Memorial Church UCC,
in Palos Park (10300 West 131st St.). The annual picnic is for families from all
member congregations. Fun and food for
all ages will be provided, from BBQ, desserts, and soft drinks to balloons, a
bouncy house, piñata, and even a clown. Embrace this opportunity to share
faithful fellowship with your Jewish, Muslim, and Christian neighbors! Questions?
Contact our own Rob McManamy or Bryan
Burke. For more about SWIFT, go to www.swiftinterfaith.org, or visit the group's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/SWIFT-South-West-Interfaith-Team.
The
Daughters of the King
This is the final week to contribute to
the Back to School Backpack Give Away through Respond Now. We are seeking contributions of folders and
wide-ruled spiral notebooks for the backpacks.
The deadline for the supplies will be Sunday, July 30th. Please contact Cyndie Knoll if you have questions
or need more information. Collection
boxes will be provided in the atrium lobby.
Search
Committee
The vestry has prayerfully chosen and approved the search
committee for our new rector. Tracie Moxley and Donna Blackburn will serve as co-chairs.
Bill Bestow, Glynis Keene, Jayne Goode, Tom Senesac, Eric Turnquest, Anne
Edwards, and Stuart Creason will serve on the committee with them. We will
commission the search committee at our worship services on Sunday, July 30th.
The Vestry wishes to thank everyone who expressed an interest to
serve on the search committee. Even though you may not have been selected to
serve on the committee, we will be reaching out to everyone, especially the
youth of our church, to be involved in this process. Please continue to
pray for the Holy Spirit to guide them in this process.
Call out for St.
John's pictures!
We would like to continue the tradition of having pictures of
life at St. John's, but we need everyone's help! Whenever you see a good
photo opportunity at St. John's (special event, holidays, good hair day),
please pull out your phone or camera, take some pictures and email them to Anne
Edwards. Anne manages
the FaceBook page for the parish, so she will either post them or save them for
the Parish. And, if you haven't already, please like "St. John the
Evangelist, Flossmoor."
